The woman, whose name was kept anonymous, claimed that she was sitting on her house’s door step with her dog when the encounter took place.

“I saw a man walking up the sidewalk at 3 a.m., smoking a cigarette by holding it under, like an European, and one arm behind his back, as he past me he nodded, and so did I. I thought it strange being so late, he walked around the corner and was gone,” she told MUFON about the 2014 encounter.

The woman goes on to say that the same man showed up at the same spot a week later and that they exchanged some words.

“I saw him at 3 a.m, again. He smiled and said very softly and meekly ‘hello’, and bowed his head. I returned the greeting. It is a small rural farming town. No one was out and I could hear his hard sole shoes make a clatter in the still of the night.”

But it was 7 days later, she explains, that things would take a different turn.

“I slept with the double front doors open into my studio-type home for ventilation. At 3 a.m., I heard the man walking by.”

She claims that when the man turned and looked at her, his face was nothing like it was before.

“He had a reptilian face. He was wearing a hooded jacket. We both stared a each other for about 10 seconds.”

The Californian described the humanoid as having a scaly face with empty eye sockets. Instead of a regular mouth with lips and teeth, she added, he had “a small slit”.

“He had a brow ridge. The scales looked like those of a snake and had a bluish color to it.”

She also provided a sketch of the purported being.

According to the woman, the alleged humanoid walked away, although he was still wearing the same shoes.

“I felt it was the same man, but was seeing a reptile being,” she said.

Some paranormal researchers believe in the existence of a race of snake-like underground creatures. Proponents of the reptilian theory, such as David Icke, suggest a conspiracy involving these humanoids taking over planet Earth. According to its followers, these creatures are meticulously involved in daily political decisions affecting governments across the world, as they also believe that they are capable of “morphing” or “shapeshifting” at will in order to “deceive” the population.